If they are both the same maker and model, I would think you could. Otherwise probably not.
My Windows 10 is corrupted. I'm having a hard time creating a recovery drive for it. I have a notebook with a Windows 8.1 OS and can easily create a recovery disk. Is it possible to downgrade using that recovery drive?

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